Generating Content
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Content generation lets you add small content snippets during the publishing process. Although CSS 2.1 defines some generated content rules, the lack of support for this feature makes it unwidely used, while we wait for Microsoft to get it working in IE7 or IE8. Then you don't really have to care if you're using Tópico.
Generated content snippets types
Generated content snippets can be of two types:
- Text
- XPath
These two modes correspond to the text and XML spaces described in this topic.
Text content snippets
The Text type selects the value of the Text field by looking at the topic markup as a text file. This is a very flexible feature that can also generate malformed XML, which you want to avoid. Be careful if you use generated content in text mode.
| Type | Position | Text | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Before | <div class="warning"> | <div class="warning_label">Warning</div> |
The above entries add a div element of class "warning_label" just before any div element of class "warning". Learn more about this example in this tutorial.
You can click on the WYSIWYG icon in the editor toolbar to switch to the xml view 
of your topic. The XML view allows you to select text string to paste in the generated content grid.
XPath content snippets
The XPath type selects the target element by looking at the XML source file as a tree. When you use the XPath generated content type, the Content field must be a well formed xml element.
| Type | Position | Text | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| XPath | After | //a[contains(@href,'http')] | <img class="external_link" src="images/external_link.jpg"/> |
The above entries add a small external link icon 
to all links in the collection that target an http server. Learn more about this example in this tutorial. The XPath expression selects all anchors elements (<a>) that have a href attribute that contains "http". The Content, which is a well formed XHTML img element, is then added just After the selected node. Again, the display properties are defines with another CSS selector.
Don't forget to create a style in your stylesheet that will make this new content fit nicely within the publication.
Generated content options
The following table lists the different generated content options available.
| Type | Position | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Before | The textual Content is inserted before the Text |
| Text | After | The textual Content is inserted after the Text |
| Text | Replace | The textual Content replaces the Text |
| XPath | Before | The XML element in the Content column is inserted before the target element. |
| Xpath | After | The XML element in the Content column is inserted after the target element. |
| XPath | Replace | The XML element in the Content column ireplaces the target element. |
| XPath | First child | The XML element in the Content column is inserted as the first child of the target element. |
| XPath | Last child | The XML element in the Content column is inserted as the last child of the target element. |
Note that the First child and Last child options only make sense when targeting an element with an XPath statement. These positions will do nothing in Text mode.
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